Karen Zalamea in Conversation with Emmy Lee Wall

This event is free.

In person at The Anvil Centre Theatre
Registration not required
Join via Zoom

Please note the event time is in Pacific Standard Time

Meet the artist and learn about Ensemble, on view at the Anvil Centre April 1, 2024 – March 1, 2025. This event includes a conversation between the artist and Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Capture Photography Festival.

Please note that this talk will be livestreamed and recorded.

Commissioned by the City of New Westminster, this temporary public art installation is presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival.

If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.

About the Artist

Karen Zalamea (she/her) is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Burnaby, Canada, on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and critically considers methodologies, materiality and modes of presentation. Zalamea’s work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Zalamea has attended artist residencies in the Philippines, Iceland and Canada and was the recipient of the 2023 Prefix Prize. Zalamea holds an MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.